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Reports: Happy Birthday, Pat Tillman

Ear to the Ground: Italy Convicts CIA Agents for Rendition

Reports: The Tortured Logic Continues

Reports: A Record You Can Believe In

Arts and Culture: R.E.M. and Their Musical Friends Push to Shut Down Guantanamo Bay

Ear to the Ground: White House Lawyer in Trouble for Doing His Job

Reports: Unintended Consequences in Nuclear Pakistan

A/V Booth: Tortured Law

Truthdig Podcast: The Torture Memos

Reports: Washington Plays the Idiot With Guantanamo

Ear to the Ground: Gitmo Deadline May Be Missed

Ear to the Ground: Can America Have Too Much Cheney?

Ear to the Ground: Obama Won’t Buckle Under on Torture Inquiry

Ear to the Ground: What Torture Never Told Us

Reports: From ‘Do No Harm’ to Torture

Reports: Cheney Plays to His Crowd

Ear to the Ground: WSJ Columnist: Cheney in 2012

A/V Booth: Gibbs: Cheney’s Wrong on Interrogation

Cartoons: Redacted

Reports: Law, Not Torture, Protects National Security

Reports: Only One U.S. Official Has Taken an Honorable Stand on Torture

Ear to the Ground: Cheney Chimes In on Interrogation

Reports: We Need to Know What Was Done in Our Name

Ear to the Ground: Report: Obama Might Replace CIA Chief

Ear to the Ground: AG to Appoint Torture Prosecutor

Reports: How Bad Things Might Have Been

Reports: Bush’s Pioneering Sadists: A Tale From the ‘War on Terror’ Dark Side

Reports: Health Care Reform Needs an Action Hero

Reports: Nader Was Right: Liberals Are Going Nowhere With Obama

Ear to the Ground: Counterterrorism Chief Says Bullets Alone Won’t Do the Job

Ear to the Ground: Iran Opposition Alleges Torture

Ear to the Ground: Release of One of Youngest at Gitmo Is Ordered

Ear to the Ground: U.S. to Set Gitmo Inmate Free in a Case Called an ‘Outrage’

Ear to the Ground: U.N. Is Refused Access to Info on Gitmo

Ear to the Ground: Extreme Makeover: Bagram Prison Edition

Cartoons: The Nightmare

Ear to the Ground: Detainees vs. Bush

Reports: Stains From the Bush Era Won’t Fade

Ear to the Ground: Only Voluntary Gitmo Statements Valid, Justice Dept. Says

Reports: Undo the Coup

Ear to the Ground: Reformists Allegedly Tortured in Iran

Ear to the Ground: More Ex-Detainees Allege Abuse

Ear to the Ground: Cheney’s Satanic Verses

A/V Booth: No Big Surprise: Torture Yields Bogus Info

Ear to the Ground: CIA Chief Wonders Whether Cheney Wishes for Terrorist Attack

Arts and Culture: Flickr User Banished for Criticizing Obama

Reports: Two Men Who Stood Under the Plunderers’ Knives

Reports: Being Obama Matters

Reports: Hold Your Applause

Ear to the Ground: Justice Dept. Lawyers Opposed Torture but Saw It as Legal

Ear to the Ground: Nominee Pulls Out Before Being Questioned About Torture

Reports: Replace Petraeus

Ear to the Ground: Gitmo Evidence to Be Made Public

A/V Booth: Democracy Now! News Highlights

Ear to the Ground: Bush Defends Torture

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Denies That Prison Photos Depict Rape

Reports: Chevron, Shell and the True Cost of Oil

Reports: Fresh Air Versus a Bunker

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Is Torture a Partisan Issue?

A/V Booth: Was Bob Graham Briefed About Torture?

Reports: Obama Can’t Duck the Tough Ones

Reports: In Praise of Empathy

Reports: Cheney and the Iraq-Torture Link

Ear to the Ground: Obama Defends Gitmo’s Closure, Cheney Rebukes It

Reports: A Truth Commission Beckons

Ear to the Ground: ‘Nancy, It’s Leon. We Have to Talk.’

A/V Booth: Cheney’s Chains to Torture

A/V Booth: Drawing the Chorus Line in the Sand

Ear to the Ground: Torture on Obama’s Watch

Reports: Obama’s Coalition of the Unwilling

Cartoons: No Mirrors

Cartoons: Consider The Source

Ear to the Ground: Cheney Denied by the CIA

Ear to the Ground: Obama Reneges on Torture Photo Release

Reports: Pelosi the Enabler

A/V Booth: Tortured by Bad Jokes

Reports: Old Faithful of Nonsense

Ear to the Ground: Pelosi Sticks By Her Waterboarding Denial

Ear to the Ground: What Did Pelosi Know?

A/V Booth: Waterboarding With Willy the Whale

Ear to the Ground: Bush Lawyers Likely in the Clear

Reports: Taking a Page From the Bush Playbook

A/V Booth: Jon Stewart Inflicts Discomfort on Cliff May

Reports: Disclosure of ‘Secrets’ in the ’70s Didn’t Destroy the Nation

Reports: Look to the Law—Not to Whether Torture ‘Works’

Reports: Model for an Accounting

Cartoons: Feeling Dirty

Ear to the Ground: Krugman on Bybee and the ‘Apparatchiks’

Ear to the Ground: Joe Wilson Wants Dick Cheney to Let It All Hang Out

Reports: What to Make of the Ironic Mr. Obama

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Torture, Credit Cards and Chrysler

A/V Booth: Olbermann Offers Hannity $1K per Second to Be Waterboarded

Ear to the Ground: U.S. to Release More Torture Photos

Reports: Torture Was Used to Try to Link Saddam With 9/11

Arts and Culture: Eve Pell on America’s Culture of Punishment

Reports: Torture Is a Crime, and Crimes Demand Prosecution

Ear to the Ground: Holder Says He Will Pursue Torture Wrongdoing

A/V Booth: Cheney, Rove Struck by ‘Balzheimer’s Disease’

Ear to the Ground: John McCain for Anti-Torture Czar?

Ear to the Ground: Torture’s Paradigm Shift

Reports: Torturers Should Be Punished

Reports: When Fascism Came to America

Ear to the Ground: Obama: Justice Could Prosecute Torture Lawyers

Reports: Bybee Must Go

Reports: Obama Stands Nuremberg on Its Head

Reports: Where’s Rev. Wright When You Need Him?

Cartoons: Doing Nothing

Ear to the Ground: The 183rd Time’s the Charm

A/V Booth: Armitage on Torture, ‘AWOL’ Congress

Ear to the Ground: Pastor Says Border Patrol Worked Him Over

Ear to the Ground: A Decision Not to Prosecute

Reports: Columbine Questions We Still Don’t Ponder

Reports: Torture Is a Crime That Must Be Punished

Reports: The Father of Guantanamo

Reports: Obama: The Extremists’ Nightmare

Truthdig Podcast: Documenting 8 Years of Torture

Reports: America Is in Need of a Moral Bailout

Reports: Human Rights Defenders Have It Tough in the Mideast

Ear to the Ground: Sex Scandal Calls CIA’s Self-Policing Into Question

Ear to the Ground: This Is How We Did It

Ear to the Ground: Secret Report Documents CIA Torture

A/V Booth: Will Bush Ever Face World Court?

Reports: Why Did So Few Americans Give a Damn?

Reports: Nine Secret Bush-Era Documents Released

Ear to the Ground: The ICC’s First Tooth

Ear to the Ground: CIA Torture Coverup Was Worse Than We Knew

Ear to the Ground: Room for Improvement ... Even at Home

Reports: The President’s Address to Congress

Cartoons: Under New Management

Reports: Carmaker, Banker, Broker ...

Ear to the Ground: PR Worries Stalled Release of Gitmo Inmates

Arts and Culture: Limbaugh Selling ‘Club Gitmo’ Gear

Reports: Obama’s Afghan Trap

Reports: Obama’s Immigration Conundrum

Ear to the Ground: Guantanamo’s Last Terror Trial

Ear to the Ground: Obama Keeps Renditions In the Toolbox

Ear to the Ground: Mugabe Learns How to Share ... Maybe

Reports: Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Jail

Cartoons: Released

Reports: Civilian Courts Can Deal With Terrorism Cases

Reports: Obama’s Salvage Operation

Reports: Obama Must Halt America’s Moral Decline

A/V Booth: Obama Signs Order to Close Guantanamo

Cartoons: Cheney’s Mementos

Ear to the Ground: Obama Puts Gitmo Trials on Hold

Ear to the Ground: Holder States the Obvious

Arts and Culture: Christian Appy on ‘Mekong Diaries’

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Fails in Human Rights Role

A/V Booth: Glenn Beck Cites ‘24’ to Defend Torture

A/V Booth: Obama on Gaza, Investigating Bush Abuses and More

Reports: Should the Torturers Go on Trial?

Ear to the Ground: Obama Picks Top Spies

Reports: What Nixon Admitted (and Cheney Won’t)

Reports: Cheney’s Legacy of Deception

Reports: From ‘Mission Accomplished’ to ‘So What?’

Ear to the Ground: Milgram Experiment Revisited

Cartoons: Nightmare on 34th Street

Reports: Torture Proponents Have No Serious Argument

A/V Booth: Cheney on Authorizing ‘Hard-Line’ Interrogation Methods

Reports: Senate Panel’s Report on U.S. Torture Abuse

Ear to the Ground: Torture Report Points the Finger at Rumsfeld

Reports: Sweeping Blackwater Under the Rug

A/V Booth: O’Reilly: Dangerous ‘Far-Left Loons’ Nixed Torture

Reports: Remaking the World in America’s Image

Reports: Taking Over Bush’s Endless War

Ear to the Ground: Bush Speaks of Legacy

Ear to the Ground: 5 Guantanamo Detainees Ordered Freed

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Hegemony on the Outs

Reports: Bracing for a Major Disappointment

Reports: No More Torture

A/V Booth: Barack and Michelle Obama on the Next Four Years

Reports: No End to the Savagery in Afghanistan

Reports: This Is What He’s Sorry About?

Reports: President Obama Can Redeem the White House

Reports: End of a Catholic Commandment?

Reports: U.S. Loses Its Grip on Europe

Reports: A Bush-Style Whitewash

Ear to the Ground: Bush Memos OK’d CIA Torture

Reports: America’s Political Cannibalism

Reports: Palin vs. Palin

Ear to the Ground: White House Angered by Guantanamo Ruling

Arts and Culture: Does the Cold War Have Lessons for Today?

Reports: Memoir Politics

A/V Booth: Mr. McCain Goes to Washington

Arts and Culture: Jonathan Shapiro on the Hamdan Case

Reports: Cleaning Up After Bush

Arts and Culture: Warren I. Cohen on China’s Charm Offensive

Reports: What’s Sex Got to Do With It?

Ear to the Ground: Shock Therapy Buzzes On

A/V Booth: The U.S. Role in Mexico’s Drug War

Ear to the Ground: Palestinian Security Forces Accused of Torture

Reports: Bush’s Legacy of Torture

Ear to the Ground: Argentine ‘Dirty War’ Murderer Gets Life

Ear to the Ground: Justice Torture Memos Say ‘Good Faith’ Is Legal Defense

Cartoons: Canada’s Slight Detour

Ear to the Ground: Ashcroft Defends Waterboarding at House Hearing

A/V Booth: Ashcroft Testifies About Guantanamo Interrogation Methods

Reports: ‘Kafka Comes to America’

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Borrowed Interrogation Methods From an Old Enemy

A/V Booth: Waterboarding Christopher Hitchens

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